{"id":710,"date":"2009-11-03T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T01:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:23:59","slug":"nature-is-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Nature is gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday before Halloween, Geoff and I carved a pumpkin. I haven&#8217;t carved a pumpkin in about ten years. We carved a basic Jack-o-Lantern face, with gap teeth and turned down eyebrows. I didn&#8217;t want the deer that roam the neighborhood to mess it up so I kept it inside until Saturday morning, when I went to put it outside the house. And here&#8217;s what I found&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/grosspumpkin1.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:15px; margin-right:10px;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/grosspumpkin2.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n<p>The whole pumpkin was full of this cotton-like white mold. I tried to clean it out and the pumpkin&#8217;s forehead started to buckle. Ended up tossing the whole thing and we didn&#8217;t have any Halloween decorations for the trick-or-treaters. (Which turned out to be fine, since only one group of trick-or-treaters came all night. Oh well. More candy for me!)<\/p>\n<p>Then, yesterday morning, Geoff found this swimming the breaststroke in the pool&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/personbug.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n<p>The picture doesn&#8217;t do justice to this insect&#8217;s massive size. It was almost three inches long. That&#8217;s as big as a <a href=\"\/blog\/images\/2009\/inky.jpg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">hamster<\/a>! We saw another bug like this a few weeks ago after the heavy rain. That one was on its back, writhing around on the ground in its death throes, and I swear to god it looked like a little alien baby. Anyone know what it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday before Halloween, Geoff and I carved a pumpkin. I haven&#8217;t carved a pumpkin in about ten years. We carved a basic Jack-o-Lantern face, with gap teeth and turned down eyebrows. I didn&#8217;t want the deer that roam the neighborhood to mess it up so I kept it inside until Saturday morning, when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-great-outdoors","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20129,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/20129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}